Syndicate

Jun. 19th, 2017

[News: Repose]

[She makes the proper arrangements—with work, with rent. She leaves her stuff at the Clary House, but with two hundred dollars to pay for storage space, if it becomes necessary. Still, MJ's planning on returning. It's just a vacation. She needs to go back home, then she needs to just not be in Repose. Gwendy is with her, and they pack into her silver Mazda, and leave town before sunrise.]

May. 11th, 2017

Holly + MJ: moving into Clary House

[She didn't own a lot of stuff. She had cash, which was kind of better because cash was transportable and shit like bedsheets and towels and plants and dressers totally weren't. But if she had to skimp a little to begin with, like maybe leave the whole plants and dressers until later? That was cool, because this whole thing was so way better than the place the girl from work had taken her back to, which was cheap, sad-looking string lights and a bucket for the hole in the ceiling. It was cheap, which was kind of the point and the girls from work were super-nice but it wasn't four solid walls and normal and Holly? Kind of liked the idea of normal, just a little. Not enough to get boring, and not enough to squeeze it dry but normal when normal meant a bed that didn't involve someone's couch?

Totally okay. So she came with the rucksack with tape over the bottom trimmed down with Steph's scissors until it kind of looked like it was made that way, unless you saw the light make a difference between matte and the slick shine of the tape. Boots and neon shirt and denim cut-offs over tights and she had a key with her name on it. The bathroom door might stick but the front door didn't and she stood in the hall and let her bag slide down her shoulder to her feet, wild black curls and scrubbed-clean skin from the shower that morning and Holly was buoyant: Cat had shuffled the pieces together until they fit like a jigsaw or whatever, but Cat shuffling was so not a downside. It was kind of family and family was a renewed concept and Holly let the bag sit by the door as she headed to the foot of the stairs.]

Hi? [If the house was occupied? Wandering around felt a tiny bit like breaking in, instead of a key and that so wasn't a today kind of feeling.]

May. 4th, 2017

MJ W

[Left for MJ W][Slipped under MJ's door: All her contact numbers, along with a super long explanation about where she's going: New York, to work with scientists there on her portal theory in regards to the Upside-Down, which she minimizes by calling it a super not-scary other dimension that can be accessed from various places throughout the county. She leaves a key to her place across the hall, should MJ need it, along with her one plant (Enterprise the Succulent) for MJ to water.]

Apr. 21st, 2017

Mean-Eyed Cat Lock

[Thanks to impeccable government-issued paperwork (Thanks, Aegis), a 21-year-old girl arrives at the Mean-Eyed Cat to temporarily 'run things' while her 'sister' is deployed. Her name's Selina, but you can call her Cat, and the resemblance is uncanny. And, with Stephanie off taking care of things at the manor, it's finally time to try living on her own. So, for the first time since the incident, the lights in the tiny house behind the bar come alive in the evening.]

Apr. 19th, 2017

[locked to mj w]

[After this.] Hey, you probably already heard there's something nasty wandering around. You okay? Have any nightmares? I was thinking about asking if you wanted to come over here. There's a lot of us, and we're taking it in shifts.